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[vonStrachwitz]

German-cultured slant on 1980's US economy and military doctrine. Always seem\ed the best fit for me, both before and after the Clanners came along.

I just wish the FedCom had worked for longer than just the marriage of Hanse and Melissa.

[Strychnine]

Because they are the least insane out of all the other houses and they DON'T treat their soldiers or mercenaries like disposable napkins.

Kallende Rathwynne, on 06 March 2012 - 06:12 AM, said:

<Cues Pet Shop Boys> She has the looks and the brains. We work for her to make lots of money. The Archon Princess will kill you if you disagree. Long Live Katrina!

You had me at Pet Shop Boys.

Edited by Strychnine, 10 March 2012 - 06:06 PM.

[Strumtruppen]

I decided to side with steiner is due too 4 points
1- they are stinking rich and i hope it rubs off on me
2-all the massive assulat mechs going about will bring all the fire away from my medium mech
3- we are the first house to crush jade falcon(in the end)
4- while i'm not entirely sure i belive that we are one of the first to get clan tech

[Serith]

Best equppied mechs in the IS heaviest armor even on scout mechs and when the clans come guess who has the cash to buy all those nice overpowered fast mechs STIENNNEERRRRR!!!! oh yea and MOAR ATLAS

Strumtruppen, on 25 March 2012 - 05:31 AM, said:

I decided to side with steiner is due too 4 points
1- they are stinking rich and i hope it rubs off on me
2-all the massive assulat mechs going about will bring all the fire away from my medium mech
3- we are the first house to crush jade falcon(in the end)
4- while i'm not entirely sure i belive that we are one of the first to get clan tech

yes that is correct stiener was the first to recieve clan tech because WE BOUGHT IT and we had the firepower to cripple and steal them

[Serith]

Grayson Pryde, on 04 March 2012 - 06:44 PM, said:

Why?

Because i am german!

Even if i am not a typical Steiner fan( i like medium mechs -40-55tons!) i think we will have a lot of fun fighting for that great house!


Long live House Steiner!

PS:until the clans arrive! Then it will be realy hard for me to desiced^^

yea but thats why we have 80-tonnage heavy armored scout/assault mechs

[Starkiller]

Why ask why, drink Bud Dry!

[Fetladral]

Tadakuma, on 21 February 2012 - 06:01 AM, said:

Because all the cool Kids are in house Steiner... Morgan Kell and ... actually Morgan Kell is enough the man is so cool he makes spending a decade in a Catholic Monastery seem cool.

morgan kell isn't steiner he runs the kell hounds a merc unit that tends to work for steiner a bit. even though they are semi affiliated with a rebel group in the commonwealth and they saved or attempted to save prince victor davions life. don't recall if they made it or not. i do remember he was killed by the combine

[Starkiller]

Fetladral, on 26 March 2012 - 04:04 PM, said:

morgan kell isn't steiner he runs the kell hounds a merc unit that tends to work for steiner a bit. even though they are semi affiliated with a rebel group in the commonwealth and they saved or attempted to save prince victor davions life. don't recall if they made it or not. i do remember he was killed by the combine

He is related to the Steiners by blood, how is he not a Steiner?

[Name140704]

They pay the best! House Marik give good hookups on refits, too!

[Aedris Nova]

Because you like ridiculously oversized mechs and know you dont have to fight house davion

[Ilyich]

If I must pick a house I would choose Stiener for many of the resaons you have listed, but I also agree with many of Laos' and Davion's actions in the past, so I would prefer to be a mercenary and not limit myself under one name.

[Benaresh]

YogSothoth, on 22 February 2012 - 03:23 PM, said:

Why House Steiner?

- Right to Assembly
- Freedom of Speech
- Freedom of the Press
- Free Market Economy
- Powerful industrial base and quite possibly a recession-proof economy
- More assault 'mechs
- Statuesque women of German descent
- Sauerkraut (Corrected the spelling - thanks, Henry Pride!)
- Bratwurst
- Probably the best beer and chocolate in the Inner Sphere
- Ice Palaces
- Excuse to listen to Rammstein and KMFDM while playing MWO

as german and steiner affilated Merc i feel the need to thank you for this post here!

[steelwraith]

Lets see if I can remember... way back in the 80s a friend came over with his brand new copy of Battletech (2nd Ed I think). We read over the rules and I was asked to pick a house. Since I tend to gravitate towards the 'good guys', it came down to Steiner or Davion. I ended up with Steiner because I rather liked the idea of a female leader in this quasi-feudalistic setting, I prefer heavier mechs, and blue is a better colour than gold.

Since then I never had a reason to change houses; as I watched the game's history unfold, I came to like Steiner more and more. Today I can't even imagine being somewhere else.

[Karl Streiger]

While cross reading some books i figured out:
Davions are in general sad when a enemy pilot didn't eject and die - they even think that capitulation has anything to do with honor

But when you have no mercy for a foe...join the fist... we are allowed to crush the feets of our Zeus through enemy heads...we can disable our automatic ejection and stay in our mechs till death took us out - you may say that Snakes can do the same...but they can't they have to do sepukku when facing a superior force.

[Alizabeth Aijou]

Eh, probably because of all the Fiats.

[ClockWise]

This might be going ahead a bit but in the Fed Com war you treated Merc Groups terribly. Suicide missions I tell you, suicide!

[Flakjakk]

House Steiner was our chosen house in Battle Tech back in 87. Been there ever since....

[Exillian]

revanus, on 13 February 2012 - 03:45 PM, said:

Excessive wealth. The fact is, the Lyran Commonwealth is filthy rich. Everything we touch turns shiny and valuable. What's a House to do with all this wealth? Well, build exotic ice castles on frozen worlds, of course! But after we built a sufficient number of Bond villain igloo palaces, it seemed the next best thing would be to spend it on giant robo-men, so that we could have massive, real-life Rock 'Em Sock 'Em free-for-alls. And, um, defend ourselves.

Oh yeah.

Edited by Exillian, 08 May 2012 - 02:46 PM.

[JazzySteel]

Because Assault Mechs. Wait, I think im in the wrong Alley...

[Exillian]

^ We have a Davion, he may be a spy.